Vicky Pelaez

Virginia "Vicky" Pelaez Ocampo (1956-) was a Peruvian journalist and columnist who was deported from the United States in 2010 due to her participation in the Russian SVR intelligence agency's "Illegals Program" sleeper cell operation in the USA alongside her husband, Mikhail A. Vasenkov.

Biography
Virginia Pelaez Ocampo was born in Cuzco, Peru in 1956, and she became one of few women journalists in her country during the 1980s. She married Russian KGB agent Mikhail A. Vasenkov in 1983, and they moved to Yonkers, New York in 1985 with Pelaez's son from a previous marriage. Pelaez had previously been a willing participant in an MRTA hostage-taking in 1984, and, in New York, she worked for the El Diario La Prensa newspaper for more than two decades, strongly supporting far-left dictators Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro and criticizing US foreign policy in Latin America. In June 2010, she and nine others were arrested for taking part in the Russian SVR's "Illegals Program" sleeper cell operation, and they were deported to Russia before moving to Peru in 1983.